In this video from our YouTube channel (click here to subscribe), we take a look at the real reason the day after Thanksgiving is called “Black Friday.” And if you’ve heard it’s because that’s when retailers finally make a profit for the year (moving out of the red, and into the black)… well, you might want to give this video […]
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This is a weekly wrap of our Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here. Tang was Not Invented for the Space Program In fact, Tang was actually invented by chemist and occasional playwright William A. Mitchell in 1957 while he was working for General Foods. General Foods introduced Tang to the public in powder form in […]
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This is a weekly wrap of our Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here. The Fascinating Origin of the Word “Abracadabra” These days you might hear this word before some stage magician pulls a rabbit out of his hat, but hundreds of years ago people actually believed that “abracadabra” was a magical spell. The exact origin […]
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This is a weekly wrap of our Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here. The Origin of the Legend of Zelda The Legend of Zelda is aptly named, as the series has truly become a legend within the gaming industry. Every new generation of gamers have been given the opportunity to fall in love with it […]
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In 2010, architect and PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London, Julijonas Urbonas, from Lithuania, decided to attempt to design a method of euthanizing people that they might even enjoy. His solution- the Euthanasia Coaster, which he designed and built at a precise 1:500 scale. It’s a roller coaster that could seat up to 24 passengers and […]
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In 1999, 37 year old Bill Morgan was a truck driver living in a travel trailer in Australia. That’s when disaster struck- while working, he got in a pretty bad accident that he nonetheless survived. However, medication he was given during his recovery resulted in him having an extreme allergic reaction that ultimately caused his heart to stop. After being […]
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In 1860, the clean shaven Abraham Lincoln was running for President of the United States. This clean shaven look was somewhat odd for a man of the age. You see, shortly before Lincoln decided to grow a beard, something of a beard revolution swept the United States and by the mid-19th century the formerly predominately clean-shaven men of America now […]
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This is a weekly wrap of our Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here. Mark Twain Was Born and Died in the Same Years That Halley’s Comet Flew By the Earth This is a somewhat uncommon occurrence given that Halley’s comet only passes by the Earth approximately every 76 years. What makes it even more remarkable […]
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In this video from our YouTube channel (click here to subscribe), we take a look at how exactly the practice of Halloween and Trick or Treating really got started. To make sure you don’t miss out on many more videos like this, be sure and subscribe to our new daily channel! If you liked this video, you might also enjoy: […]
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This is a weekly wrap of our Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here. Dr. Seuss Wrote “Green Eggs and Ham” on a Bet The bet was made in 1960 with Bennett Cerf, the co-founder of Random House, and was for $50 (about $382 today). Despite Dr. Seuss, a.k.a. Theodore Geisel, winning the bet by producing […]
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This is a weekly wrap of our Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here. The First Person to “Walk” in Space Nearly Got Stuck Out There That lucky individual was Alexei Leonov, who was born in the Soviet Union on May 30, 1934. He was one of the twenty Soviet Air Force Pilots to be chosen […]
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This is a weekly wrap of our Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here. Hollywood Medical Myths Part 2: Injecting Medicine Into Your Heart can Be Beneficial Ah, the dramatic scene that ends with an actor stabbing a needle straight into their heart, narrowly escaping death and magically curing whatever ailment just befell them. While very […]
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After years of having it on the “To-Do” list, we’re officially launching our YouTube Channel with this as our debut video. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to make sure you don’t miss future TodayIFoundOut videos, which like our articles will be on a variety of topics and chock full of interesting, well researched facts. Thanks! Transcript: #1: Avast, Definition: “stop” […]
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This is a weekly wrap of our Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here. How a Wife Beating, Serial Killer Puppet Gave Us the Expression “Pleased as Punch” As a child you might have wondered how a bowl of punch could be pleased about anything. Turns out, the saying has nothing to do with the drink. […]
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TodayIFoundOut.com has been hovering for a few months just barely under 2 million page views in a month, but thanks to a traffic surge the last few days has finally broken through the 2 million mark in a 30 day period receiving 2,308,791 page views from 1,557,178 visits in the last 30 days, both of which are new site records. […]
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This is a weekly wrap of our Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here. Where the Phrase “Close But No Cigar” Came From This popular idiom, which means “to fall short of a successful outcome” or “close call,” was first coined in the United States in the late 19th or early 20th century. While it can’t […]
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This is a weekly wrap of our Daily Knowledge Newsletter. You can get that newsletter for free here. The Paperclip was Used as a Symbol of Resistance During WWII In April of 1940, just a few months into World War II, Adolf Hitler knew that he needed a way to break past the Allied blockade of Germany if he had […]
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